-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2008-06-23 at 17:55 +0200, Emmanuel Briot wrote:
factory (11.0): - -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 10648 May 31 00:52 /usr/bin/man
10.3: - -rwsr-xr-x 2 root root 5884 Sep 22 2007 /usr/bin/man
Same as on my system, and that didn't work for me... I would be interested in your testing when you have time.
Me too :-)
I don't understand why man needs to be suid? It's only about reading docs, there nothing privileged about that. Why? There must be a reason somewhere.
That's because man pages are pre-processed, and then cached: the file /etc/permissions, pointed to by another poster, contains the following:
/var/cache/man man:root 755
which indicates the location of that cache, and its user/group. Apparently, man needs to be able to write in that directory, or it shows a blank page (at least on my system)
Makes sense. But then, perhaps, the binary should be suid but owned by 'man', not root.
I still wasn't able to submit the issue on bugzilla, because Novell still hasn't sent me the confirmation email for my account. I guess there are too many people downloading openSUSE right now...
The Novell bugzilla system is always slow, sometimes almost unusable. Normally it is simply slow. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIX/tmtTMYHG2NR9URApG7AJ9c+I/3V5cjoINSV3gaPKvtHV4AvACdHecO zLw7kZE1WdVoJT29NVmMmBU= =zq5c -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org